The Apostolic Fathers, Second Edition, Part 1, Volume 1
Author: Joseph B. Lightfoot
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-02-08
Total Pages: 509
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THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS
Author: Kirsopp Lake
Publisher: Christian Publishing House
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 215
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Apostolic Fathers were core Christian theologians among the Church Fathers who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., who are believed to have personally known some of the Twelve Apostles or to have been significantly influenced by them. Their writings, though widely circulated in Early Christianity, were not included in the canon of the New Testament. Many of the writings derive from the same time period and geographical location as other works of early Christian literature, which came to be part of the New Testament. Some of the writings found among the Apostolic Fathers appear to have been as highly regarded as some of the writings which became the New Testament. These writers include Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Hermas, Barnabas, Papias, and the anonymous authors of the Didachē (Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), Letter to Diognetus, Letter of Barnabas, and the Martyrdom of Polycarp. Not everything written by the Apostolic Fathers is considered to be equally valuable theologically, but taken as a whole, their writings are more valuable historically than any other Christian literature outside the New Testament. They provide a bridge between it and the more fully developed Christianity of the late 2nd century.
The Apostolic Fathers, Second Edition, Part 1, Volume 2
Author: Joseph B. Lightfoot
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-02-08
Total Pages: 541
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Apostolic Fathers
Author: Simon Tugwell
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780826457714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA member of the Dominican Order guides readers carefully and intelligently through the major figures and debates of this key age in the emergence and spread of Christianity.
The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament
Author: Clayton N. Jefford
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1441241779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe apostolic fathers were authors of nonbiblical church writings of the first and early second centuries. These works are important because their authors, Clement I, Hermas, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, and the author of the Epistle of Barnabas, were contemporaries of the biblical writers. Expressing pastoral concern, their writings are similar in style to the New Testament. Some of their writings, in fact, were venerated as Scripture before the official canon was decided. The Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament provides a comparison of the apostolic fathers and the New Testament that is at once comprehensive and accessible. What genres (letters, miracle stories, etc.) appear in what ways? What apostolic fathers seem to reflect which passages in the New Testament? What themes appear in both bodies of literature? How did the apostolic fathers adopt and adapt images from the New Testament? How do the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers contribute to our understanding of how early Christians understood themselves in relation to the mother faith of Judaism? Any attempt to compare the Apostolic Fathers and the New Testament faces the difficulty that each set of writings represents diverse authors and historical contexts within the early church. As a result, scholars who work in the field have typically restricted their research to individual authors and writings. Thus, it has been difficult to come to any general observations about the larger corpus. After carefully examining images, themes, and concepts found in the New Testament and the apostolic fathers, Jefford posits some general observations and insights about the beliefs of the early church.
The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Michael W. Holmes
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 080103468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary version of important early Christian texts that are not included in the New Testament. The translation, Greek texts, introduction, notes, and bibliographies are freshly revised.
The Apostolic Fathers in English
Author: Michael W. Holmes
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2006-11-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1585585009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament. Here a leading expert on these texts offers an authoritative contemporary translation, in the tradition of the magisterial Lightfoot version but thoroughly up-to-date. The third edition features numerous changes, including carefully revised translations and a new, more user-friendly design. The introduction, notes, and bibliographies have been freshly revised as well.
Early Christian Writings
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Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1987-04-30
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0141915307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion, Judaism. Included here are the first Epistle of Bishop Clement of Rome, an impassioned plea for harmony; The Epistle of Polycarp; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Didache; and the Seven Epistles written by Ignatius of Antioch - among them his moving appeal to the Romans that they grant him a martyr's death.
The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Apostolic Fathers
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1575673312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow with a new foreword by Mark Galli. A collection of the earliest known writings of the church, The Apostolic Fathers includes a sermon and six brief documents: the First and Second Epistles of Clement, the Didache, the Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Polycarp, the Epistle about Polycarp's Martyrdom, and the Shepherd of Hermas. "There are two ways, one of life and one of death," begins the Didache, "and between the two ways there is a great difference." Followers of the way of life today will find much encouragement of those who first embarked on the path two millennia ago. The John Lightfoot (1602-1675) translation was the source used for this edition of Apostolic Fathers.
